Unions Demands Homeland Security Department Cut Ties With Arizona

Sam Stein of the Huffington Post reports that some unions are pressuring Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano to cut ties between the Department and the State of Arizona because of the controversial immigration law:

The nation's largest union organization and one of its biggest civil rights groups have written a stern letter to Secretary Janet Napolitano demanding that the Department of Homeland Security cut programmatic ties with law enforcement officials in Arizona or be complicit in the state's controversial immigration law.

On Friday, the union conglomerate AFL-CIO and the civil rights coalition, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, became the latest institutions to urge for the isolation or boycott of Arizona when they requested that Homeland Security terminate its training of local law enforcement officials in the state.

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